Hypena isogona Meyrick, 1889 (one synonym : Bomolocha disualis Swinhoe, 1917) HYPENINAE,   EREBIDAE,   NOCTUOIDEA

Don Herbison-Evans (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley

(Photo: courtesy of Dianne Clarke, Maleny, Queensland)

The adult moth has grey and brown patterned forewings, each with a dark brown fascia with scalloped boundaries, and two white-tipped dark spots by the wing-tip. The hindwings are plain brown. The wingspan is about 3.5 cms.

The species has been found in Australia in

Queensland.

(Photo: courtesy of CSIRO/BIO Photography Group, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics, University of Guelph)

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Further reading :

Edward Meyrick,
On some Lepidoptera from New Guinea,
Transactions of the Entomological Society of London,
1889, p. 478-479, No. 73.

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(written 14 May 2020)